Messaggerie Musicali

Italian sales & distribution and editor company founded by Ladislao Sugar in 1936, operating in Milano and Roma. In 1978 it was merged in CGD Messaggerie Musicali S.p.A.. In 1948 through Messaggerie Musicali Ladislao was able to secure the distribution of CGD (Compagnia Generale del Disco). So successful was Messaggerie Musicali with the distribution that in 1952 Sugar was offered the chance to acquire a fifty percent interest in the record company itself, and seven years later bought up the remaining shares to become the sole owner of CGD.